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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    It was. It did a thing that makes me want to rewatch the show because I don't fully understand the mechanism that triggered it: In every single reveal, my wife and I figured it out between 3-15 minutes before it happened. Not far in advance, just a few minutes. We basically took turns going "AH! IT'S THIS PERSON!" It's a really enjoyable process. It removes the blindside of a reveal but gives great pleasure to the viewer as they "figure it out" and then it immediately rolls into the reveal to keep the suspense high. And I'm not sure exactly what they did to engage us that way (some times, anyway). The first Bernard revel was a gimme because of the door he couldn't see. The second was because of his child and the hint-dropping about cornerstones. But a few others I can't remember, such as the Wyatt reveal (which we figured out well in advance, actually, at least half of an episode). The writing was super-clever in that show (when it wasn't miring itself down unnecessarily, that is). The last two episodes of the season are basically a writing master class unto themselves.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Finally finished Westworld. It could have been 7 or 8 episodes instead of 10 but I can't complain too much. The last few episodes were throwing curveballs left and right and it was fun to just keep up with what was happening. The one flaw is the pacing. Too many dead spots in the show as it slows down for no apparent reason but the payoff is so good that it's worth the wait.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Touche.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Given his age and velocity, he's the type of guy who can and possibly should be ushered right to the bigs. Unfortunately, the dude keeps getting injured. Relievers like Burdi don't have to learn three pitches and refine their command. They shouldn't be led along at a snail's pace as they were with the old front office. Not that I'm saying Burdi should be on the MLB roster right now, only that whether he dominated enough lower levels sufficiently shouldn't be the deciding factor. If the dude can throw it 98 over the plate and not walk every other batter, get him up here because, in case no one else has noticed, the bullpen is terrible.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I was just checking on that. I think you're right.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I feel the same way but bullpens tend to go nuts in Spring Training. There are so many injuries, starters rotating into the pen, and general madness that I don't get too worked up about the roster until we have an idea what it will look like. I wouldn't even rule out someone like Burdi coming to Spring Training, mowing down batters, and getting the nod on the Opening Day roster.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I see he wrote Bones but other than Fargo, I don't think I've seen anything he wrote. But his run on Fargo is enough to get me to tune in.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I had no idea Hawley was attached to Legion. Yes, please.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    wait wut omg
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I've watched a little over half the season. It's not bad but I wouldn't call it great. It's decent but kinda forgettable (thus far anyway). If you have the time, go ahead and watch it but don't go out of your way to do so.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    There are simply too many good shows on television to keep up with mediocrity any more. For example, The Expanse is much better than anything I've seen from Doctor Who in years. Same goes for Westworld, pretty much anything from Netflix that isn't Travelers, and a slew of other shows I haven't even seen.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I loved Dr Who through the first five seasons. I began to lose interest during the Matt Smith era. It was still okay and pretty watchable but by the time Capaldi came around, my interest had dropped to zero and I stopped watching it.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Thank you for this article. I'm not sure why we're complaining that this front office is eliminating player redundancies we complained existed under the previous front office. Any single player on that list can be considered a questionable move. Some people liked Park. Some liked Turner. Some liked Walker, though I'll never understand why. When those moves are combined, I see a lot of roster movement that fixes a problem I hated about the previous front office; that they'd sit on their hands and give a mix of players 300 PAs indefinitely until that player ran out of options. And then the front office still managed to keep most of those players a year or two longer. Every team has chaff at the end of the 40 man roster but it seemed like the Twins often committed 25%+ of their 40 man to chaff. I'm glad to see many, if not all, of these players out of the organization.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    John Ryan Murphy had a .413 OPS last season. When he was demoted in May, his OPS was a laughably bad .219. Jason Castro has a career .699 OPS. In 2016, his OPS was .684. His three season OPS was .660. Murphy's framing was -0.07 calls per game last season according to StatCast. Castro was +0.92 calls per game. So, no, not the same thing at all.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    No, and there are loads of services out there that enable you to grab the temporary data and download it permanently.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't use Snapchat either. It's basically a personal messaging service. Unlike normal social media, you form groups and communicate directly with them (or single friends). It's not a "broadcast" service like most social media. It's more private and closed. I haven't found a use for it because the other social platforms do the job for me.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    The guy doesn't profile as someone statheads want to love but he gets the job done. In five of the past seven seasons, he has posted both a very good ERA and a very good FIP (and he did it in Colorado for most of that time). Maybe this is the season he falls apart. Maybe it's not. For $2m, what the hell. Go for it.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    This is why I invested in Facebook. This has been their trend in earnings reports for quite some time. Quarter---------Earnings---Expected Earnings 02/01/2017-----1.24--------1.11 11/02/2016-----0.88--------0.77 07/27/2016-----0.76--------0.62 04/27/2016-----0.57--------0.44 01/27/2016-----0.59--------0.50 11/04/2015-----0.36--------0.35 They beat the consensus every quarter (in addition to the consensus showing considerable growth YoY). I'd have to check but I believe that trend goes back 2+ years. They know how to make money. They're the only social platform who knows how to do it.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Not a super-sexy deal but the kind of deal this team should be making this season. Pick up a middling guy on a one-year deal, hope he's competent, and flip him at the deadline if the team is out of it in June.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Correction, Facebook owns the three largest social platforms. I thought Snapchat had slipped by Instagram but that hasn't happened (yet). Most Americans don't realize it but Facebook owns WhatsApp, which has 1.2 billion monthly active users. It's simply not very popular here in the States. By comparison, Twitter (now fifth place) has 320 million monthly active users. Facebook itself is still king of the world with almost 1.9 billion monthly active users.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, they've been dabbling with integrating more Snapchat-esque features, for sure. Which makes sense, as the Snapchat style of conversation is the ONLY form of social media Facebook (who owns three of the four largest social media platforms in the world) doesn't currently dominate. Also, Facebook owning three of the four largest social media platforms is why I bought into them a few years back. Seriously, they're the only company in the world who has this **** figured out.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    As much as I'd love to see a big trade bring in an arm, I think I'm as interested to see what happens to the current crop of arms as I am a new arm via trade or FA. The guy I'm most interested in watching is Kohl Stewart over the next two years. He's a good fit for a Falvey system; he sits 92-94 and can touch 95-96 regularly. Over the past two years, he has struggled to miss bats at a somewhat spectacular rate for a guy who throws that hard with as good a breaking ball as he's reported to have. To me, Stewart is something of a litmus test for this front office.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    FWIW, Instagram is older than Snapchat. Or is that what you said? Now that I read your post again, not sure.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Not me, though I'd take a closer look before giving a firm "no". Like other social media platforms, my biggest concern would be their path to monetization and later growth of that monetization. Facebook has been stellar in that regard, which is why I invested in them not long after their IPO (around a year later, IIRC). Everyone else has been ****ing terrible at monetization.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I hope it is. That's why I want to see them sift through as many of the Eddie Rosarios, Kyle Gibsons, Kennys Vargas, et al, as they can through the first half of the season. Find out who is worth keeping, who isn't, and move aggressively with that decision. I hope the days of watching the Pat Deans of the world flounder for four months at a time are behind us.
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